Getting currently playing on a group/room

[marcaddeo]

When I have multiple Sonos grouped together, there's no way for me to tell which one to poll to get the currently playing. You have to poll the master.

Is it possible to tell which device is the master of the room/group? That way I can then get the currently playing track from that device.

Or am I missing something super obvious?

[DPH]

Look at groups.py in SoCo. This allows you to find the marster of any group - documentation in the code.

from soco import SoCo
device = SoCo('192.168.1.69')
print(device.player_name)
print(device.group.coordinator.player_name)

Have fun, Cheers Daivd

[marcaddeo]

Hi @DPH,

I guess the question was can you do this with the current socos utility? If not, I'd happily give a shot at adding it and submitting a PR!

[DPH]

Hi @marcaddeo,
it works with the current SoCo utility, not tried it on Socos the command line version.
In that it imports SoCo it can't be far away....

Sorry I don't know for sure
Regards David

[KennethNielsen]

@marcaddeo socos currently uses SoCo version 0.8 and from what I can see in the release notes: http://docs.python-soco.com/en/latest/releases/0.8.html the group functionality was luckily introduced in just that version, so I think all the pieces should be in place for it. So if you want to give it a shot, go crazy ;)

[petteraas]

The 'requires_coordinator' https://github.com/SoCo/socos/blob/master/socos/utils.py#L42 already takes care of this for some specific functions.

[KennethNielsen]

@petteraas ah yeah. I had forgotten about that one. Re-reading the code (that I think I wrote some of) I see that the add_command decorator uses that function and that the methods that gets the current track info is marked as requiring coordinator. This should mean that the command is automatically called on the coordinator/master. I did a quick test, and indeed it does seem to do just that. So @marcaddeo I guess the answer is that 'yes' socos master should already implement that. Please give it a try and see if it works for you.